Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, he took the two lunch boxes and the small pot with braised pork in it and got out of the car directly.

They couldn't wash them with water. There wasn't that much water available for them to wash the pot now. They just threw the pot and bowls into the snow and wiped them inside with snow several times, and they could be cleaned thoroughly.

Liu Ruyan watched all this from inside the car, and her eyes softened a lot. Clearly, he was quite capable, yet he didn't have to be so thrifty. One could only say that he was really good at managing daily life!

Liu Ruyan withdrew her gaze. Taking advantage of this time, she took out the steel wire rope and stuffed it into her backpack. Just after she had done all this, Liu Ruyan heard the sound of the door opening and looked in the direction of the sound.

Zhang Yuan was wearing a mask on his face, so Liu Ruyan couldn't see his expression. But just by looking at his drooping eyebrows and eyes, Liu Ruyan knew that he was unhappy.

"What's wrong with you?" He had been in high spirits when he got out of the car just now. How could he be like this in such a short while?

Zhang Yuan sighed, handed the small iron pot to Liu Ruyan, and then took out the two plastic lunch boxes. "They're cracked!"

At first, Liu Ruyan didn't quite understand what Zhang Yuan meant. But when she saw the cracks on the two plastic lunch boxes, she couldn't help bursting out laughing.

"Why are you still laughing!" Zhang Yuan said this with a bit of resentment.

Liu Ruyan waved her hand and tried her best to hold back her laughter. "Sorry, I just couldn't help it for a moment."

After taking a few deep breaths, Liu Ruyan held back her laughter and said seriously, "It's not your fault that they're cracked. The weather is too cold, and the plastic has become so hard and brittle that it will crack easily if you're not careful at all."

"I know that too. So I was especially careful when washing them and used less force. What a pity! They still cracked in the end!" Zhang Yuan put the cracked boxes on the passenger seat. "Just leave them there for now. We can use them to make a fire later."

The smell of burning plastic was really unpleasant, but plastic could help with combustion and could burn for a longer time.

Hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Liu Ruyan's eyes looking at Zhang Yuan changed a little. His way of being thrifty when it was necessary was so similar to hers.

Zhang Yuan didn't know what Liu Ruyan was thinking. After sitting down properly, he said to Liu Ruyan, "Then shall we set off now? I think we can drive forward for another hour and then turn back. We should be able to return to the base at night. What do you think?"

"Okay!" Liu Ruyan had prepared things thoroughly, but compared with staying outside in the cold, it was of course more appropriate to return to the base at night.

The snowplow started moving slowly, and Liu Ruyan opened the window halfway. It wasn't easy to come out once, and it would be a pity not to take the opportunity to practice shooting.

At the beginning, Liu Ruyan aimed at the tree trunks. The tree trunks were stationary, but the car was constantly moving. It wasn't that easy to hit the selected tree trunk while the car was moving.

Liu Ruyan didn't rush to shoot. She would only fire a shot after patiently aiming. Bullets were so expensive. Even though she had thousands of them, she couldn't waste them casually.

Perhaps it was really like what Zhang Yuan said. Liu Ruyan did have a talent for shooting. After an hour of persistent practice, Liu Ruyan could already quickly aim at the target and hit it while the car was moving.

This was a gratifying result. Even though Liu Ruyan had fired hundreds of bullets in this hour, compared with the gains, this expense didn't seem so painful.

Zhang Yuan glanced at Liu Ruyan, who was still excited, through the rearview mirror, and the corners of his mouth under the mask curved slightly.

Without saying anything to disturb Liu Ruyan, Zhang Yuan slowly turned the direction and prepared to return to the base.

As the snowplow gradually changed its direction, Liu Ruyan's field of vision also changed. At this moment, Liu Ruyan saw many dark shadows moving in the distance. Although they weren't coming in their direction, they were moving very fast.

Not long ago, she had just killed a wild boar, so Liu Ruyan was a bit haunted by these fast-moving black dots in the snow.

"Zhang Yuan, look over there!"

Zhang Yuan looked in the direction Liu Ruyan pointed at after hearing her words. After seeing those black dots, his expression also became solemn, and he said in a low voice, "Don't shoot anymore."

Even if Zhang Yuan hadn't said that, Liu Ruyan didn't have any intention of shooting again. Liu Ruyan took out the binoculars and could see clearly through them that those that were moving fast were indeed a herd of wild boars.

What was shocking was that among the ten or twenty wild boars, they were all adult wild boars with strong physiques. Some were even much bigger than the one tied behind their car.

The wild boars ran very fast in the snow. In just a few minutes, the herd of wild boars disappeared from Liu Ruyan's sight.

Liu Ruyan put down the binoculars and frowned tightly.

"Why are there so many wild boars?"

The larger the size of the wild boars, the greater their appetite would be. But now, in this icy and snowy world, what food could there be for them? If they couldn't find food, would they go to the base? These were just the ones they saw. Were there more wild boars in places they couldn't see? Besides wild boars, would there be other wild animals too? Could it be that in addition to natural disasters, people also had to face all kinds of powerful wild animals? Just thinking about it made Liu Ruyan feel heavy-hearted.

In her previous life, the place where Liu Ruyan stayed had always been not far from the city. There were no mountains or rivers there, and basically no wild animals could be seen. And as for animals like cats, dogs, and birds, as soon as they appeared, they would soon become the food on the plates of some extremely hungry people. So in her previous life, Liu Ruyan hardly saw any animals later on. She never expected that after coming to the First Base in this life, she would encounter a completely different situation from her previous life.

Seeing that Liu Ruyan had been frowning and not saying a word, Zhang Yuan comforted her, "Don't worry. No matter how many or how powerful these animals are, they can't resist firearms. If they dare to go to the base, it will be a dead end for them."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Liu Ruyan nodded. "You're right." Indeed, there was nothing to worry about in this regard. What needed to be worried about were people like them who left the base and those who had been living outside the base all the time.

Because she had seen so many wild boars, Liu Ruyan was also afraid of making too much noise and attracting unnecessary trouble. On the way back, Liu Ruyan didn't plan to shoot anymore.

"You've been driving for such a long time. Let me drive instead!" Liu Ruyan said to Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan didn't decline and agreed directly, "Okay!"

The two of them got out of the car and changed seats.

Liu Ruyan sat in the driver's seat. At first, the speed was really slow, like a turtle's pace. After all, she had never driven a snowplow before. After gradually getting familiar with it for a while, Liu Ruyan then increased the speed to the same as when Zhang Yuan was driving.

Originally, the two of them had no hope of getting any other prey. But unexpectedly, more than an hour later, they saw quite a few gray rabbits. Those gray rabbits were fat and big, moving quickly in the snow.

Zhang Yuan's shooting skills were unquestionable. He fired four shots in a row, and all four rabbits were killed. There were two more rabbits that were so frightened that they ran away very fast and disappeared in no time.

Zhang Yuan opened the door and got out of the car. Soon, he came back carrying four fat rabbits.

The temperature outside was low. After the rabbits were killed, in just this short while, their bodies had already been frozen stiff.

Zhang Yuan directly put the rabbits under the back seat, and Liu Ruyan had no objection to this.

Now Liu Ruyan was more curious about how many contribution points their wild boar and rabbits could be exchanged for.